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Deal with the Dragon by Nicole Blanchard
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Her Alpha Wolf Protector (Cave Bay Shifters Book 1)
Cynthia Wilde - 2020
Desperate to leave her old life, and memories of her nasty shifter ex behind, she was all too happy to accept the position as the new Fae appointed “Archivist” in which she would be working closely with the local pack Alpha. She had no idea just how close they would be getting. Max Strata had his hands full being the Alpha of Cave Bay. Being responsible for his pack and trying to reverse the mysterious slow decline of his beloved town was already a full-time job. With the sudden appearance of a sinkhole, and rumors of something dark and dangerous in the waters offshore things are only getting more complicated when, on top of the rest, he is thrown into the uncomfortable role of temporary guardian of three orphaned shifter children. As if that is not enough he has to welcome the new archivist. And she will prove to be his greatest challenge yet… Bound together in a race to discover what’s happening in Cave Bay, Max and Heather have to navigate ancient legends of the sea, and a myriad of strange unfolding mysteries and dangers, all while doing their best to overcome their own rising passions. Can they set aside their fears in time to discover the truth of what is plaguing the town in time? Will they take the chance to fight for a true love, or will the mysteries of the town, and their own demons destroy them first? Come along to Cave Bay and the start of a new unfolding mystery… This story contains no cheating, no cliff hangers, and of course has a HEA! ; ) Warning: This ebook contains mature themes and language and is meant for 18+ readers only. Her Alpha Wolf Protector is a Wolf Shifter Protector Romance that will appeal to lovers of paranormal, urban fantasy, shapeshifters, contemporary, and, of course sexy sweet romance full of the “feels”.
Red
Kate SeRine - 2012
But everyone calls me Red.”Once upon a time, a spell went awry, stranding Make Believe characters in the ordinary world. Since then, Tess “Red” Little—a/k/a Little Red Riding Hood—has worked as an Enforcer for the Chicago branch of the Fairytale Management Authority. But, consider yourself warned—she’s not just some waif with a basket of goodies. All grown up and with nothing to lose, a gun and combat boots is more her style. And Red’s new assignment threatens to be short on happily ever afters…Someone is murdering transplanted Tales in gruesome fashion. The list of fictional characters capable of such grisly acts is short and includes more than one of Red’s old flames. And if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s another complication, in the form of sexy, enigmatic Nate Grimm, the FMA’s lead detective and part-time Reaper. Used to following her own rules and living life on the edge, Red has managed to avoid taking on a partner until now. But Nate’s dark side makes him perfect for a case like this. That is, if she can trust him. Because if there’s one thing Red knows for sure, it’s that believing in the wrong person can have big, bad consequences…
Dazzled
J.K. Harper - 2016
Cynical yet sexy dragon shifter Sebastian Bernal rules a modern empire of riches. Savagely betrayed once by a woman, he disdains love. His singular passion is to find his ancestors’ stolen treasures - gold objects that are filled with the essence of his own power. Without them, he will die.Smart, practical Lacey Whitman is married to her all-consuming yet beloved job. She has no time for men. Except the one man whose smoky eyes and electrifying presence caress her dreams at night, tempt her senses by day. But Sebastian Bernal and his secrets can only cause inevitable heartbreak. When Sebastian’s rigid walls begin to break down from Lacey’s undeniable allure, everything threatens to tip out of his control. She is his mate - and she’s about to disrupt not only his bitter oath to recover his family’s legacies by whatever means necessary, but his shattered heart and fading soul.
Chase Me
Aidy Award - 2018
That's exactly what the sexy-ass dragon shifter has accused her of - stealing his treasure.She's going to steal something of his alright, his sanity, if he doesn't let her go so she can get back to giving couples their happy ever afters. Its the best way to ignore the fact she's sure she'll never get one her own. Not with any man, or even a dragon. Jakob is either going to kill the sexy, curvy woman who denies she has The First Dragon's relic, or take her to bed and drive her as crazy as she's making him. Why does he want her so much he can't even properly interrogate her?Might have something to do with the way his soul is screaming at him to mark her, claim her, f*ck her, and make dragon babies with her.He can't give her his soul if she's already stolen it, or something darker and more dangerous has.
Fugitive
Bliss Devlin - 2016
Shannon Joyce is a gifted psychic healer with a dangerous secret. When she’s kidnapped by shifter mercenaries working for Whitepine Security Services, she knows escape is her only option. Her frantic flight brings her to Elysia, a peaceful town nestled in the Rocky Mountains…but her wolf shifter pursuers aren't far behind. A warrior turned rancher... Rafe Magnusson is a bear shifter who knows all about Whitepine Security Services. Years ago, they recruited him and other bear shifters as Beast Warriors, elite shock troops hired out to anyone willing to pay WSS's price. Shannon’s arrival in Elysia threatens to expose the bear shifters who escaped the sinister organization, but Rafe can’t turn away a lovely lady in need of help…especially when the curvy fugitive is his fated mate. A desperate battle Pursued by wolf shifters loyal to WSS, Shannon and Rafe must battle underhanded tactics, merciless enemies, and their own need to protect each other. Can they find a way their happily-ever-after, or will the darkness separate them forever? This steamy paranormal romance novel is a standalone story with no cliffhangers. Some of the character names and backstory details have been changed from the first edition of this book.
Dragons Don't Cry
D'Elen McClain - 2014
She’s not happy, he’s pissed off, and with a curse from a goddess thrown in, you’ll see Bastian breathe fire.Add secrets, treasure, and unimaginable heartbreak for an emotionally humorous read and discover why Dragons Don’t Cry.
Dancing with Cooper
Nalini Singh - 2013
A short story about Cooper & Grace's mated life.
Timeline:
Takes place during Tangle of Need, soon after Declaration of Courtship.This story can be found in Nalini Singh's December 2013 newsletter.
No Man Can Tame
Miranda Honfleur - 2018
A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder.After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, twenty-one-year-old Princess Alessandra returns home to a land torn apart by mutual hatred between the humans and the dark-elves. The "Beast Princess," as Aless is known by courtiers, confidently sets her mind to ways of making peace, but her father has already decided for her: she is to marry one of the mysterious and monstrous dark-elves to forge a treaty, and go on a Royal Progress across the kingdom to flaunt their harmonious union. While she intends to preserve the peace, the Beast Princess has plans of her own.Prince Veron has been raised knowing his life is not his own, but to be bargained away by his mother, the queen of Nozva Rozkveta, to strengthen the dark-elf queendom. When his mother tells him he is to marry a self-absorbed, vile human, he is determined to do his duty regardless of his personal feelings. After arriving at the human capital, he finds the "Beast Princess" rebellious and untamed—and not to be trusted.Aless and Veron face opposition at every turn, with humans and dark-elves alike opposing the union violently, as well as their own feelings of dissonance toward each other. Can two people from cultures that despise one another fall in love? Can a marriage between them bond two opposing worlds together, or will it tear them apart for good?If you like the fantasy and politics of Danielle L. Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy and the romance of Elizabeth Vaughan’s Chronicles of the Warlands, No Man Can Tame will lure you into its world and not let you go.Buy No Man Can Tame today, and journey into a medieval world of magic and Immortals, masquerades and games, love and blood, and a tale as old as time...
Blood Type
K.A. Linde - 2018
For Reyna Carpenter, giving up her body isn’t a choice. It’s survival. In a civilization laid waste by poverty and desperation, Reyna accepts a high-paying position with the wealthy and hungry vampire elite. Her new job is as the live-in blood escort for the intimidating, demanding, and devilishly handsome Beckham Anderson. He’s everything she expected from a vampire, except for one thing—he won’t feed off her. Reyna soon discovers that behind Beckham’s brooding, wicked façade lies a unique and complex man. And that, in a dark and divided world, she is more valuable than she ever would have believed. For with each passing night, Reyna can’t shake the sensation that it’s Beckham who’s afraid of her. Note: Reyna and Beckham’s story continues in Blood Match.This ebook includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.
Tempting the Beast
Lora Leigh - 2003
One of six fighting for freedom and the survival of their Pride. Merinus Tyler is the reporter who will tempt him, draw him, until the fury of the "mating frenzy" locks them into a battle of sexual heat there is no escape from.Deception, blood, and the evil Genetics Council are hot on their trail. Callan will use his strength to try and save them both...and do all in his power to keep his woman in the process.
Recurve
Shannon Mayer - 2015
I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen.
I've been accused of attacking the queen, my wicked stepmother, and my life is suddenly on the line. I have only two options left to me: banishment, or training to become one of the King's Elite Guards, an Ender.Option one will kill me.Option two is meant to break me, but it's the only way to survive.Did I mention I have no power like the rest of the elementals, and my connection to the earth is worth next to nothing?Could things get any worse? Of course they can. Welcome to being an Elemental.
It's You: Book One
K.P. Kelley - 2017
After that kiss, I never saw him again.His name was Jack Beauloup.Jack, my "Beautiful Wolf."Twenty years passed. He has returned. For me. **********Jack Beauloup and Darcy Turner share one, perfect kiss in high school before he vanishes from sleepy Carlisle, NH without a trace. Twenty years later, Darcy, who has never forgotten Jack, is shocked when he suddenly appears as a guest at her cousin's wedding. Their attraction to one another is just as searing as it was in high school, but immediately there are a landslide of questions that need answers. Where did he go? Why did he disappear? And what made him return? As they find their way back to each other, they will discover that the secrets Jack holds are enough to bind them for life, or rip them apart forever. IT'S YOU is a two-book paranormal love story. Book #1 ends with a cliffhanger. Book #2 ends with an HEA. Both book will be available within 3 months of each other. These books are sexy and steamy and intended for readers over 18.
Wolf Shunned
Laurel Night - 2021
Love isn’t everything, I know; but even the most powerful she-wolf submits to her mate. If you can’t be dominated, you can’t be mated.And an unmated wolf has no place in the pack.My one hope is the clan gathering in the Blackwood Forest. Every wolf in the continental Americas attends, and a few seriously sexy wolves catch my eye. I’m bound to find at least one who can match me, right?Then there’s my other problem: My alpha is a grade-A jerk. After treating me like a genetic freak my whole life, he suddenly decides to stake a claim.But I can’t refuse the challenge, and my wolf won’t back down. Either I submit to the alpha and become mated to his skeezy pelt, or I win the challenge and my freedom… by taking his place as alpha.Only no one has ever heard of a female alpha, and if I become one, I’ll never find a mate.Wolf Shunned is the first book in The Alpha Queen Legacy, featuring a badass heroine, a dark fantasy world, and loads of sexy wolf shifters. Be warned: This is a slow burn, why choose romance. Once you pick this story up, you won’t be able to stop devouring it until the very last page.
Deathless Night Series Box Set Books 1-3
L.E. Wilson - 2016
Determined to find his brother and stop her, Nikulas Kreek and the other five Vampire Council members solicit the help of a family of reluctant witches. Set in the Pacific Northwest, they soon discover it's not only their united cause drawing them together…. Deathless Night Series Box Set Books 1-3 This box set includes: BLOOD HUNGER (Deathless Night Series #1) A vampire who doesn't believe in love. Nikulas Kreek has been searching for his brother for seven long years. He finally has a new lead: a feisty witch named Emma Moss. And even better, Emma is hot. Like, model hot. Nik knows he should stay away from her, but the moment he tastes her, he knows he'll never be the same. Emma belongs to him, and only him. A witch who doesn't know her own power. Emma Moss still has nightmares about the night her sister was kidnapped. Seven years haven't dulled the horrors she experienced that summer night, but she refuses to believe her sister is truly gone. Yet the endless searching is taking its toll, and she's exhausted all resources and hope. So when a seductive stranger calls claiming to have a new lead, she doesn't hesitate to go meet him. Bound together by their shared cause, tormented by their fated attraction, Nik and Emma set out to find their siblings. But can he protect her from the one thing that may ultimately destroy her? Himself. BLOOD VENGEANCE (Deathless Night Series #2) A vampire bound by chains. For seven long years, Master Vampire Luukas Kreek has vowed to take revenge on the raven-haired witch that has taken his power—and his sanity. The witch with the face of an angel. Emaciated and weak, he desperately tries to hold on long enough to get his revenge. But with one taste of her blood, a single word bursts through his fragile psyche…MINE. A witch bound by love. Keira Moss has spent the last seven years trying to figure out a way to get herself out of this hellhole—and to save the strong-willed vampire she’s grown to admire—and love—while she’s at it. But she’s afraid that not even a witch as powerful as she will be able to get out of this one. For she knows that the vampire who holds her heart will kill her the moment he is free. And she won’t stop him. Tortured and starved, Luukas's hunger for Keira wars with his lust for vengeance. His shattered mind must choose: to kill the witch or to love the angel—making her HIS, forever. BLOOD OBSESSION (Deathless Night Series #3) Sacrifices had to be made for the greater, bloody good. At least that’s what vampire Aiden Sinclair kept telling himself when he woke up in an unfamiliar city with no memory of how he’d gotten there, or why. When he happens upon a cheeky witch in distress who is being hunted by creatures he is all too familiar with, Aiden must make a choice: Suppress his fears and be with the girl? Or embrace the truth and save them all? Destinies will be fulfilled. Grace Moss may be a witch, but her magic totally sucks. Hence the reason she finds herself saying yes to an unexpected offer of aid from a dusty, yet yummy-smelling vampire with a sexy British accent and bright grey eyes that dance with mischief and heat her blood.
Fire in His Blood
Ruby Dixon - 2017
Dragons - once creatures of legend - are the enemy. Vicious and unpredictable, they rule the skies of the ruined cities, forcing humanity to huddle behind barricades for safety.Claudia's a survivor. She scrapes by as best as she can in a hard, dangerous world. When she runs afoul of the law, she's left as bait in dragon territory. She only has one chance to survive - to somehow 'tame' a dragon and get it to obey her.Except the dragon that finds her is as wild and brutal as any other...and he's not interested in obeying.What he is interested in is a mate.